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Job 10

1.My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2. I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. 3. Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? 4. Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? 5. Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days, 6. That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? 7. Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

8.Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. 9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? 10. Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 11. Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. 12. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. 13. And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

14.If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. 15. If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 16. For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. 17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. 18. Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 19. I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. 20. Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 21. Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22. A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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Why does Job accuse God of making him only to destroy him?

Job says God “made me and fashioned me… yet thou dost destroy me” to press the pain of a life that began under God’s care but now feels abandoned and persecuted. He outlines God’s intimate role—“poured me out as milk… clothed me with skin and flesh”—then asks why that same maker treats him like an enemy, showing his struggle to reconcile creation with present suffering.

This chapter insists Job wants an answer for divine behaviour: he asks whether God “enquirest after mine iniquity” and why the righteous suffer, pleading that if he is righteous he still cannot “lift up my head.” This questioning echoes later theological reflection in Ecclesiastes about life’s seeming injustices, and it prepares for God’s speeches that force a shift from accusation to encounter.

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